Fastener



PAUL WERNER, OE' ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 1, 1921.

Application flied February 2, 1920. Serial No. 355,594.

To all whom t may conce/rn.'

Be it known that l, PAUL WERNER, a citizen of the United States,residing at the cityof St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Fasteners, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This in vention is a clip or grip for fastening cords, ropes, and thelike of any size, and may be used wherever it is desired to hold a lineextended or stretched between a plurality o1E points. This device savesthe time and work of tying knots or wrapping the rope or cord around astake or pin or other belaying device.

This device, if made of suitabie size and strength can be used forattachino' hawsers or cables on board ship or elsewhere, and can beused, also, Jfor fastening ropes in hoisting-machinery, derricks, andthe like. l1: made of smaller size, it can be utilized :for fasteningclothes-line, either iii-doors or out-of-doors.

t can be made of cast-iron, malleable iron, aluminum, or other suitablematerial, and, as it is formed by molding and requires no machine workto make, it is very cheap to manufacture. It can, also, be stamped andpressed, which may be even cheaper.

Furthermore, it has no springs or other parts to break or get out oforder.

`When a cord `or rope or the like is held by this device, the greaterthe weight or strain put upon the cord or rope, the more tightly it isfastened. Another advantage of this device is that, when the weight orstrain upon a line fastened at two points causes the same to sag betweenthe said points, by reason of stretching (slippage against the bite ofthis device being impossible), a simple pull on one end of the line,causing the same to slide through this device, removes the said sag andagain renders the line taut between the points of attachment.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, inwhich like numbers of reference denote like parts wherever they occur,

Figure 1 is a front elevation;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the line 2-2 in Fig. 1; and 4 Fig. 3 is aview like Fig. 1, but with the rope or the like caught over the free endof the grip.

This device is attached to a fence or post or windowframe, or the like 1`by screws 2.

IThe plate 3 is provided with a plurality ci sc rewholes for the screws2. The bar 4 1n Figs. 1, 2, and 3 is formed integral with the arms 5 ofa fork at one endof the plate 3. The slot G lies between the said arms5.

Hook 7, formed integral with tongue 8, engages bar 4 and is adapted torock thereon. One end of tongue 8 is provided with a fork 9, theextremities of the fork-mem bers terminating in lugs 10 ada ted toprevent the cord or rope l1 from opping out of the crotch 12 formed bythe fork 9 in case wind blows the main body of the cord or rope in thatdirection.

The plate 3 is screwed permanently to its support, and only when thesame is to be used is it necessary for the tongue 8 t0 be attachedthereto, which is done by seating hook 7 over bar 4t.

When the device has been attached to its proper position in the wayshown in the drawings, the line 11 can with ease be laid in the crotch12 or fork formed by the arms 9 and then the end of the line 11 or apart oi such rope be brought down so as to lie between grip 13 and plate3, and if desired this can be hitched by loop 17 over either of thefork-members 9, as shown in Fig. 3, which will have the effect in caseof wind blowing the line upward of preventing any loosening of the line.

It is to be particularly noted that the hook 7 is of such length that inits engage- `ment with the bar, it will extend so far below thetransverse diametric line of the bar as to prevent endwise separation ofthe tongue and plate so long as a ro e is beneath the bearing portion13. his prevents the possibility of the rope forcing the tongue from itspivotal connection with the bar.

The normal action of the gripping-de vice is `such that any pull on anypart of the line in a direction away from the deviceresults in pressingthe grip 13 upon and into the line 11, and the harder the pull the moretightly does the said grip press into the said line, the integral membercomprising tongue 8, fork-members 9, and the grip 13 pivoting on bar 4.

It is immaterial whether the fixed member is wider than the movable oneor vice versa.

Having thus described this invention, I hereby reserve the benefit ofall changes in Jform, arrangement, order, or use of parts,

ing an integral hook to engage the pivot bal', the baiengaging surface.of the hook conforming tothe shape of the bai` and being of a lengthexceeding one-half the length of the transverse surface of the bar, thec0- operation of the hook and bar preventing endwise separation of thetongue and plate while a rope or the like is held between the bearingportion of the tongue and plate.

In testimony whereof I hereunto ax my signature.

PAUL WERNER.

